Creating and Regulating Markets

Readings GM1212/EHA 121:

Carlos Ann & Stephen Nicholas (1988), ’Giants of an Earlier Capitalism: the Chartered Trading Companies as Modern Multinationals. The Business History Review Vol. 62, No. 3 (Autumn), pp. 398-419 (available via university library)

Carpenter, D. & Moss D. (2014), ‘Introduction’, In Preventing Regulatory Capture – Special Interest Influence and How to Limit It. (eds. Carpenter & Moss. Cambridge University Press. Downloadable from http://tobinproject.org/books‐papers/preventing‐capture (Links to an external site.)

Carrigan C. & Coglianese, C. (2015), ‘George Stigler, ‘The Theory of Economic Regulation’’. In The Oxford Handbook of Classics in Public Policy and Administration, (eds. Lodge, Page & Balla (e‐book available via the university library).

Casson Mark & John S. Lee (2011), The Origin and Development of Markets: A Business History Perspective. Business History Review 85 (Spring), 9–37. (available via university library).

Chandler, Alfred D. (1992) ‘Organizational Capabilities and the Economic History of the Industrial Enterprise’. Journal of Economic Perspectives, 6 (3), 79–10

Cossart, B. (2024). ‘Contractor states and globalization of the market for naval artillery technology (1500–1750)’, Journal of Global History, 19(2), 221-239. (Available online via the university library).

* Cronon, W. (1991) ‘Pricing the future. Grain’ in Nature’s Metropolis. Chicago and the Great West. W. W. Norton & Company. (Chapter 3). (uploaded on course page)

Erikson, E. & Assenova, V. (2015). ‘Introduction: New Forms of Organization and the Coordination of Political and Commercial Actor’, in: Chartering Capitalism: Organizing Markets, States, and Public. (Emerald Group Publishing).

* Fellman S. & Shanahan M. (2023) ‘An historical account of anti-cartel enforcement’, in: Whelan P. (eds) Research Handbooks in Cartels, Edward Elgar (uploaded on course page)

* Fligstein, N. & Calder, R. (2015) ‘Architecture of markets’ in: Emerging trends in the social and behavioral sciences (eds. Scott & Kosslyn). John Wiley & Sons. (uploaded on course page)

Foltin Craig, et al (2025) ‘The visible hand of invisible giants: Chandler’s visible hand thesis and the use of accounting data applied to the rise of a railroad empire: 1916–1929.’ Accounting History, Vol. 30(2) 316–34

Furton Glenn & Adam Martin (2019) ‘Beyond market failure and government failure. Public Choice (2019) 178:197–216. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11127-018-0623-4

*Fynn-Paul, Jeff; Marjolein t’Hart, and Griet Vermeesch. (2014) ‘Introduction. Entrepreneurs, Military Supply, and State Formation in the Late Medieval and Early Modern Periods: New Directions’, in: Fynn-Paul, Jeff (ed.), War, Entrepreneurs, and the State in Europe and the Mediterranean, 1300-1800. (Leiden, Boston: Brill )pp. 1-12. (Uploaded on course page).

Harding C. & Joshua J. (2010), Regulating Cartels in Europe (2nd ed). Oxford University Press, Required reading: Introduction, Chapter 1 and 2 (e‐book available via the university library).

Ittersum, Martine. (2018) ‘Empire by Treaty? The role of written documents in European overseas expansion, 1500-1800’, in: Adam Clulow and Tristan Mostert (eds.), The Dutch and English East India Companies. Diplomacy, Trade and Violence in Early Modern Asia. (Amsterdam: AUP), pp. 153 – 178. (E-book available via university library).

* Johnson, H.T. & Kaplan R.S. (1987) Relevance lost. The rise and fall of management accounting. Harvard University Press. [Required reading chapter 2] (uploaded on course page).

*Krul, Matthijs. (2018). The New Institutionalist Economic History of Douglass C. North (Springer), pp. 1 – 29. (‘Introduction: Douglas North’s NIEH in Context’). (uploaded on course page).

* Olsen, P.I. (2005) 'The re‐formatting of electricity, and the making of a market', in Actor‐Network Theory and Organizing (eds. Czarniawska & Hernes). Liber. (uploaded on course page.)

Pagliari Stefano & Kevin Young (2016) ‘The interest ecology of financial regulation: interest group plurality in the design of financial regulatory policies’. Socio-Economic Review, 14( 2), 309–337

Perchard Andrew & Keith Gildart (2015) “Buying brains and experts”: British coal owners, regulatory capture and miners’ health, 1918 – 1946, Labor History, 56(4), 459-480, DOI: 10.1080/0023656X.2016.1086555

Peters, M. (2010), ‘State, Parliament and Empire in the Mid-18th Century: Hudson’s Bay Company and the Parliamentary Enquiry of 1749.’ Parliamentary History, 29 (2), 171-191. (Available online via university library).

Pettigrew & Cleve (2014). ‘Parting Companies: The Glorious Revolution, Company Power, and Imperial Mercantilism.’ The Historical Journal, 57(3), 617-638. (Available online via university library).

Rosenbaum Eckehard F. (2000) ‘What is a Market? On the Methodology of a Contested Concept’, Review of Social Economy, 58(4), 455-482, DOI: 10.1080/00346760050204300

Stiglitz, J. Regulation and Failure (2009). In David Moss, D. and J. Cisternino (eds) New Perspectives on Regulation. https://tobinproject.org/sites/default/files/assets/New_Perspectives_Ch1_Stiglitz.pdf (links to an external site)

Torres Sánchez, Rafael. (2016). Economic Policy and Military Supplies, in: Military Entrepreneurs and the Spanish Contractor State in the Eighteenth Century (Oxford: OUP), pp. 13-40. (E-book available via university library).

Sabo, J. & Andersson-Skog, L. (2017), ‘Dynamite Regulations. The Explosives Industry, Regulatory Capture and the Swedish Government 1858-1948.’ International advances in economic research, Vol.23 (2), p.191-201 (available via university library)

Schenk Catherine R. & Emmanuel Mourlon-Druol (2015) ‘Bank Regulation and Supervision’, In Youssef Cassis et al (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Banking and Financial History (e-book available via university library)